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You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business and cousin, business is a-boomin'. — Lt. Aldo Raine · 2009I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. — General R. Corman · 1979There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much." — Michael Herr · 1977Terminate...with extreme prejudice. — Civilian · 1979All 63 quotes →War (film)61 quotes
You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business and cousin, business is a-boomin'. — Lt. Aldo Raine · 2009I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. — General R. Corman · 1979Terminate...with extreme prejudice. — Civilian · 1979Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969All 61 quotes →Epic10 quotes
I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a ranger. — Captain Miller · 1998In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one. — 1st Sgt. Welsh · 1998This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave state and free. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here is the place to build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, you're fighting for each other. — Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain · 1993I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it. — Private Witt · 1998It makes no difference who you are, no matter how much training you got and the tougher guy you might be. When you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you gonna get it. — Sgt. Storm · 1998To be a good soldier you must love the army. To be a good commander you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. — General Robert E. Lee · 1993All 10 quotes →Epic (film)10 quotes
I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a ranger. — Captain Miller · 1998In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one. — 1st Sgt. Welsh · 1998This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave state and free. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here is the place to build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, you're fighting for each other. — Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain · 1993I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it. — Private Witt · 1998It makes no difference who you are, no matter how much training you got and the tougher guy you might be. When you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you gonna get it. — Sgt. Storm · 1998To be a good soldier you must love the army. To be a good commander you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. — General Robert E. Lee · 1993All 10 quotes →Biography8 quotes
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. — General George S. Patton · 1969I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana." — General George S. Patton · 1969All 8 quotes →Biography (film)8 quotes
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. — General George S. Patton · 1969I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana." — General George S. Patton · 1969All 8 quotes →Black comedy8 quotes
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get out hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, depending on the breaks. — Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson · 1964You're talking about mass murder, General, not war! — President Merkin Muffley · 1964Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room! — President Merkin Muffley · 1964Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy…the fear to attack! — Dr. Strangelove · 1964Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face? — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964All 8 quotes →Black comedy (film)8 quotes
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get out hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, depending on the breaks. — Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson · 1964You're talking about mass murder, General, not war! — President Merkin Muffley · 1964Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room! — President Merkin Muffley · 1964Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy…the fear to attack! — Dr. Strangelove · 1964Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face? — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964All 8 quotes →Psychological drama4 quotes
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. — General R. Corman · 1979Terminate...with extreme prejudice. — Civilian · 1979I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring. — Captain Benjamin L. Willard · 1979Psychological drama (film)4 quotes
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. — General R. Corman · 1979Terminate...with extreme prejudice. — Civilian · 1979I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring. — Captain Benjamin L. Willard · 1979Adventure2 quotes
Are all American officers so ill-mannered? — Von Luger 'The Kommandant' · 1963Tea without milk is so uncivilized. — Blythe 'The Forger' · 1963Adventure (film)2 quotes
Are all American officers so ill-mannered? — Von Luger 'The Kommandant' · 1963Tea without milk is so uncivilized. — Blythe 'The Forger' · 1963Historical literature1 quote
The wars fought by human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of the sea slug. — Edmund Wilson · 1962Thriller1 quote
But you realize every time you suit up, every time we go out, it's life or death. You roll the dice...and you deal with it. — Sergeant JT Sanborn · 2008Thriller (film)1 quote
But you realize every time you suit up, every time we go out, it's life or death. You roll the dice...and you deal with it. — Sergeant JT Sanborn · 2008War literature1 quote
There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much." — Michael Herr · 1977